Hola, I am now back in Quito after a scary bus ride back along the Pan-American highway!!! Otavello was brilliant and it was really good bartering with the stallholders (Kerry enjoyed bartering the most and is better at numbers than me!)I have just had an unusal encounter with some Ecuadorians. Outside the hostal where I was joking with the night porter, a lady and 2 kids came up to me. It turns out they are from a school about a mile away. They are learning Engl...

Oh my god! That is what this blog is called!!!!!!!!!Yesterday we travelled from Quito on the bus to Ortavello. We only had little day sacks with clothes as 2 hours away we assumed the temperature would still be the same as Quito! The bus was on the edge of the road next to a 2000-3000 metre drop! (Dad would have had a bloody fit!) I was having a right flap and Kerry thought the view was lovely!!!! We didnt know where Ortavello was and when the bus conductor reali...

The new hostal seems to be alright. The bed is comfortable because I didnt leave it until half 9 this morning!!! I have spent the day shopping!!!!!!!!! We walked to the main 3 shopping malls. Two were really good and one was pants. I bought some socks and a t-shirt. Nothing really exciting! Altogether we have probably waled about 3-4 miles today so we are practising for Macchu Picchu! If you think London is bad for pollution (ie. fumes and stuff) you need to ...

Well it has been a boring day here in Quito! Instead of going to Bolivia, we thought we would go somewhere else because its too high there for me. We decided we would go to Cuba for a couple of weeks. We found a really good tour cycling around Cuba. We went to the tour office only to be told to book it online. On our way back to the hotel we went past a travel agent who informed us the cost of flight tickets. I can't even tell you what the cost was without w...

Hola! Got up this morning at 9am and had my breakfast in the hotel by half past! I was starving. We met up with the rest of the group from the Galapagos trip and headed for Mital De Mitad (I cannot spell spanish!). We took a taxi to the bus staion and then a local bus to the centre of the earth. It was interesting walking around around and learning the Inca history. Then we done some experiments across the equator. I managed to sit a raw egg on a nail and we watc...